These claims are part of the #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown meme, which consists of low-effort pictures - usually screengrabs from Brown’s Snapchat - pasted over with absurdly homophobic statements. Just like no one honestly believes that Millie Bobby Brown bullies gay men by sliding into their texts and dropping f-bombs (the one that rhymes with maggots).īut what people don’t believe doesn’t really matter, as Millie Bobby Brown, the 14-year-old star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, deactivated her Twitter account this week, reportedly in response to assertions like these. Just like no one honestly believes Millie Bobby Brown throws piping hot McCafés at people who wear pride T-shirts at McDonald’s.
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I’m sure that gay relationships like we think of them existed, but they weren’t encouraged in the ancient world, and as glad as I am that history is becoming more popular, especially neglected history, trying to make everything related to homosexuality a positive historical example is borderline anti-intellectual and accidentally lumps gay men in with some pretty despicable cultural practices.No one honestly believes Millie Bobby Brown runs over gay men with new cars. They were, in a way that we would find repugnant- citizen men could have same sex intercourse with someone else only if they were enslaved or a child, usually both. A lot of people I went to undergrad with and see on the internet in these memes have convinced themselves that Artemis was a lesbian, or that society was accepting of homosexuality. Take the internets response to homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Some of the people and things these memes are about probably are talking about someone who would be gay by our standards.īut it’s also sometimes anti-intellectualism. That said, I’m glad, in a way, that academic history and LGBT history is becoming more popular even if it’s in memes.īut I’m also tired of people with no historical training trying to make things “gay.” I believe that homosexuality is an image orientation, but how it was expressed depends on society. Yes, there is a historical misconception that people in the past couldn’t possibly be gay, but that’s not usually held by most historians. I’m gay, and I’m in grad school to become a history professor. Sorry for the rant, someone please correct me if I’m out of line. No one was killed or jailed for being best friends. It is possible for same sex friendships in media to have homoerotic undertones and it’s okay to headcannon them as gay I feel, I do this all the time, but something about expanding the definition of queer to include platonic friendships doesn’t sit right with me, it’s divorcing it from the very thing that queer people have been historically oppressed for in the first place who they love (romantically) and are sexually attracted to. Gayness can not be separated from sexuality/romance because it is an orientation, not just a description for any relationship involving the same sex.
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Just as it’s not an expression of my sexuality for me to have a close male friend whom I have no sexual or romantic interest in.
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Having queer feelings for someone else is inherently not platonic. The vast majority of close friendships are same-sex and it makes no sense whatsoever to count these as queer representation, it feels like something straight people who are trying to be special would be on board with. Lesbians grow up being told their romantic longings can be explained and adequately represented by close friendships, and hell- I thought for most of my teens that my longing for an intense female friendship meant that I was bisexual or lesbian it turned out that I was straight and I came to this conclusion after much heartbreak. There’s nothing queer about close same-sex friendships and I’m tired of people equating it to queerness, this confuses so many people about their sexuality.